Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.